QUIRINO VITTORIO GASSMAN THEATER

TEATRO QUIRINO VITTORIO GASSMAN
Via delle Vergini 7

Originally built in 1871 almost entirely in wood

Designed by Giulio De Angelis (1850/1906) for Prince Maffeo Sciarra
It was the first theater to be built in Rome after it became capital of Italy

1882/95 masonry structure also designed by Giulio De Angelis (1850/1906)

“Giulio De Angelis acquired a position of absolute, unquestionable originality in the architecture of the first decades of Rome, the new capital of Italy. He proved himself to have an independent and peculiar temperament – and to have mastery of the most advanced construction techniques, linked to the industrial production of his time” (Giuseppe Miano - Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Treccani)

1889 rebuilding and expansion in Neo-Renaissance style by the architect Belloli and the engineer Moraldi

1915 renovation and expansion by Marcello Piacentini (1881/1960)

Restored in 1954 also by Marcello Piacentini and again in 1980 by Enrico Nespega
Here were represented some world premieres of works by Luigi Pirandello, winner of the Nobel prize for literature in 1934, and here the Italian comedian Ettore Petrolini gave his farewell to the stage

RINASCENTE PALACE ON LARGO CHIGI

PALAZZO DELLA RINASCENTE DI LARGO CHIGI

Largo Chigi

1885/87 Giulio De Angelis (1850/1906) and Sante Bucciarelli (1848/94)

1917 raised with an extra floor again by Giulio De Angelis

1920 cantilever roof by Pio Piacentini (1846/1928)

The INTERIORS were painted by Annibale Brugnoli (1843/1915) with paintings of which unfortunately no trace remains

It was the first department store in Rome, formerly known as STABILIMENTO BOCCONI (Bocconi Establishment) or ALLE CITTÀ D’ITALIA (To the Cities of Italy)

The first elevators and escalators ever in Rome were installed here

It was called LA RINASCENTE (The Reborning One) by the poet Gabriele D'Annunzio in 1917 for its reconstruction following a fire. Similar fate had just happened shortly before to its counterpart in Milan

“He showed independent and unconventional temperament and mastery of the most advanced construction techniques, linked to the industrial production of his time. With the Bocconi building Giulio De Angelis experimented in the typology of the department store, a risk in many ways, including that of opposing rooted habits and social behaviors, and he won this very difficult comparison test, giving Rome the first building of great size fully intended for commercial use” (Giuseppe Miano - Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Treccani)

In 2006 the building was bought for about € 125 million by the Spanish group ZARA and La Rinascente in 2010 moved across the street, in the Palazzo dell'Istituto di Beni Stabili (Galleria Alberto Sordi)

The preparation of the new store lasted about one year and the architecture has been restored to the initial design of Giulio De Angelis, a project advanced for its time in the use of steel structures in construction and with huge and bright windows

CHAUVET PALACE

PALAZZO CHAUVET

Via due Macelli 9/angolo Via del Tritone

1887 Giulio De Angelis (1850/1906) brilliant architect who used iron in an innovative way

It was the headquarters of the magazine Cronaca Bizantina (Byzantine Chronicle) to which the greatest Italian writers of the end of the nineteenth century collaborated: Giosuè Carducci, Luigi Capuana, Edmondo De Amicis, Giovanni Verga, Cesare Pascarella, Giovanni Pascoli and others. It was very critical against the Roman ruling class

The palace takes its name from Costanzo Chauvet journalist who until 1918 headed the newspaper Il Popolo Romano (The Roman People)

The street is called Due Macelli (Two Slaughterhouses) because until 1825 there were two shops here that used to slaughter and sell meat

SCIARRA GALLERY

GALLERIA SCIARRA

Via S. Marcello

1885/86 Giulio De Angelis (1850/1906) for prince Maffeo Sciarra

"Giulio De Angelis, the most restless, the most curious and the most brave of the Roman architects of the period of king Humbert I, was not involved in the common taste in architecture at the end of the nineteenth century, not belonging to the official neo-sixteenth century style popular in his time, of which Gaetano Koch was the leading light. De Angelis had a personality that defied any classification: the relationship between art and industry was the recurring feature of his production" (Antonio Venditti) 

Frescos "Allegories and scenes of feminine virtues" 1886/88 Giuseppe Cellini who used the encaustic technique and had Roman rich ladies as models

It is effectively a celebration of the bourgeois class

Latin phrases of Virgil and Horace including "Not unaware of trouble I have learned to succor the unfortunate" from the Aeneid. The acronym CCS stands for Carolina Colonna Sciarra mother of Prince Sciarra and represented maybe as Domina in the fresco

In the area of the Gallery used to be the ancient PORTICUS VIPSANIA

HOUSE FOR APARTMENTS IN VIA DELLE MURATTE

CASA PER APPARTAMENTI IN VIA DELLE MURATTE

Via delle Muratte 25/angolo Via delle Vergini

About 1895 by Giulio De Angelis (1850/1906)

Also known as PALAZZETTO DE ANGELIS

Elements and materials new for the time, fit into traditional structures

"De Angelis is the most unique, the most restless of the Roman architects of the time. He associates with a remarkable refinement in the choice of materials, attention to detail, the search for new technologies (use of iron and cast iron) and testing of modern environmental analysis as the internal-external or the building-road relationships" (Irene De Guttry)